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3rd Right every Wrong Conclave
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Working
with individuals in a personalized way
requires a focus that moves from what funds
can purchase to a framework of strengths
that focuses on what each individual wants
for their life including their dreams and
goals. While focusing on broad dreams of
living an independent life, the approach
involves picking up readily achievable goals
such as learning how to use an iron. By
supporting individuals to achieve small,
easily achievable goals, individual
confidence is enhanced to strive further.
Community Connections Inc, a Canberra based
NGO introduced the Better Practice Project
as the result of a review of the Mature
Carers Project, instigating changes that
enhanced agency role in the Canberra
community. This paper presents outcomes of
this review including a major cultural shift
within the agency that resulted in staff
being hired according to their value base
rather than educational qualifications. As a
management strategy, it is easier to broaden
staff knowledge in respect of disability and
its implications such as inclusion and
valued participation, but is nearly
impossible to develop values which are not
aligned with those inherent to the work and
the mission. The results of this project in
the context of young people are
significantly positive.
This
session will present the HEAL Program (Home
of Expressive Arts Learning). This is a
school-based mental health service which
offers Music and Art Therapy to adolescent
refugee students. HEAL aims to provide
therapeutic services, research and
psychoeducation which increase the
possibility of culturally diverse
adolescents experiencing the good mental
health necessary to participate fully in the
learning experience, and to enjoy life
without barriers.
Duncan
Williams identifies himself as an aboriginal
person. He is a diversity trainer offen
presenting on the rich diversity of the
aboriginal heritage of this country.
Mandalas
in therapy were first used in the West by
Carl Jung, who found that the act of drawing
mandalas had a calming and healing effect on
patients while at the same time facilitating
psychic integration (Henderson, 2005)
This
presentation reflects on the 7 year journey
of the presenters in strengths based
practice in supporting families with a child
with a significant global developmental
delay. In previous years, we had witnessed
some “success stories” of families, but
struggled to support many others who
experienced social isolation, depression and
burn-out in the intensive parenting role
involved in the care of their child. This
journey began in 2003. when we received
strengths based practice training. The
resulting post-training self-awareness and
paradigm shift of having permission to be
less of an expert and more of a helper,
along with specific reflective tools,
improved both parent's and therapists'
perceptions of hope and noticing of
change/progress. This paper presents authors
experience with strengths based practice as
a whole-of-life practice. (permeating
personal and professional life, and being
important for intra-team and authentic
with-client relationships). Specific
strategies and specific tools used, will be
examined. Co-presenting with a family with
whom we worked, we will outline and
demonstrate anecdotal evidence of
therapeutic outcomes from families and the
team. The process described is part of a
forthcoming article in the Journal of
Applied Research in Intellectual
Disabilities. 
Bobby
Bajram is the youngest person in Australia
ever to be diagnosed with MS at the age of
13 when he was legally blind and in a
wheelchair. Bobby is now a passionate 40
year old - he is a devoted man who cares for
people and is challenged to open people's
minds to the possibilities available to
those who are disabled. Bobby is the Voice
of The Disabled and has been tremendously
successful in writing and producing
international TV documentaries including the
The MS Show and Behind Closed Doors.
This
workshop utilises strengths-based practice
to develop innovative responses to people
with complex needs that are in crisis. This
workshop will assist carers working with
persons presenting seriously challenging
behavior and/or complex medical issues.
Concerns and issues around service user
satisfaction with the service; successful
meeting of their needs and effective
management of medical conditions will be
addressed. Central to this workshop is
stability in the home and living conditions
of the consumers of the service. Paige
Garland proposes the deployment of
strengths-based practice to develop
flexible, innovative service responses to
meet client's complex needs. She will share
examples of complex casework in management
from the community services sector that
involves staffing and accommodation support
options. The challenges of this sector and
the opportunities that they offer are tabled
in this workshop. This workshop is aimed at
a number of professional workers that
grapple with jurisdictional issues, mental
health services, police, and disability
service provision while responding to both
the service users and their severely
distressed families.
Head
and neck cancer is a disease that despite
new medical therapies, still has a high
mortality rate and usually causes
substantial morbidity. A diagnosis such as
this places significant stress on an
individual's coping mechanism. Often in
metropolitan areas there are numerous
supportive groups including family, friends
and medical agencies, all of which are
utilised to a different degree by patients.
In comparison, patients in rural Australia
have limited access to medical services and
may not have close personal supports to help
deal with a life changing event.
The
Logan-Beaudesert Child and Youth Mental
Health Service, Early Intervention Unit (EIU)
focuses on delivering mental health
promotion, illness prevention and early
intervention (MHPPEI) services to young
people between the ages of 0-18. It embraces
the concept of resiliency in individuals,
family units and the community, through
education, resource sharing, group programs
and community capacity building strategies.
This presentation will illustrate how the
EIU, a small team recently expanded to three
clinicians, delivers a host of MHPPEI
initiatives across the district. A selection
of past, present and future programs
delivered or co-delivered by the EIU will be
discussed, such as More than the Blues (a
program for young people with emerging
depression), OurSpace (an initiative to
support children of parents or relatives
with a mental illness), the “Priority One
Conference 2009” and “Unwell” (a drama
performance addressing mental illness stigma
in the community). The presenters hope that
the presentation would be able to encourage
other communities, which may not have yet
been able to deliver MHPPEI initiatives, due
to various reasons such as limited
resources, to give it a go. It is our
priority one, is it yours?